Yep. Whenever I heard a "that's not X, that's Y", a "here's the surprising thing", a "here's what no one's talking about", a "it isn't about P, it isn't about Q, it isn't even about R, it's about S", and similar sloppisms, I immediately stop watching/listening/reading, downvote, block, and try to forget the broken timeline we all ended up in.

The silver lining is that there's a tiny but growing movement among young people, late Gen Z and early Alpha mostly, who are so tired of all the BS they're actively going offline and analog, which makes sense, after all, all the adults are online, and kids always want to do the opposite of whatever boring adults are doing. I hope something worthwhile comes from that impulse.

CERN has a pretty big open hardware library. Have you looked through it?

You're being pretty disingenuous though. CERN is basically a facility that provides services. Most of the scientists who "work at" CERN aren't actually employed by it. They're employed by home universities in many countries, including ones outside Europe. Many of the people who actually do the work and make the inventions are grad students who may well be paying to be there, not the other way around.

Again, "publicly funded" doesn't automatically mean the public owns everything any more than your employer, public or not, owns you. Slavery is illegal, yeah? Many (most?) universities leave IP ownership with the inventors. It's an important part of academic freedom. It's also in line with typical public funding objectives which are:

1. do the most research as cheaply as possible

Sometimes there's a #2 which is:

2. commercialize as much as possible in order to stimulate economic development.

Open sourcing is typically done because scientists think sharing freely is an important part of science, and it's typically done with their own time, money and effort, often in conflict with their best career interests.

Realistically you need both

One of the criticisms of phonics is that reading comprehension suffers. You two don't need to reinforce that point quite so much.

Realistically you need both

If you're only ever exposed to phonics how do you know what words mean?

There are lots of people who have lots of different motivations. "Will" isn't usually a problem. "Ability" is. Or "capacity" is maybe a better word. The pattern repeats over and over and has been studied over and over, in exhaustive detail.

Yes, it gets in the way of all that delightful Victorian "the savages are savages because they want to be," manifest destiny, chosen people bullshit. Good.

Is it an emergency? Yes. Is it of global concern? Also yes.

In 2014, in the middle of a big Ebola outbreak, a guy in Dallas went to the hospital with symptoms. He sat around in an ER until the hospital diagnosed him with a stuffy nose, gave him Tylenol and sent him home. Later he got sicker and came to the hospital in an ambulance. Some doctor actually asked him about his travel history, realized he'd come from Liberia, the heart of the outbreak, and ordered everyone into gowns, masks, gloves and face shields.

A couple weeks later two nurses got fevers and tested positive for Ebola. One of them had flown home to Ohio in the meantime to visit family.

The reason you can *yawn* about Ebola is because there's a very good international system to protect you against it and things like it. Close calls happen anyway. The WHO emergency isn't for you. It's for people like the ER doctor who are supposed to start looking at people with stuffy noses and mild fevers and think "better be safe."

Lol. Instead of "Lenny's Podcast" or whatever, try something at least halfway respectable. Maybe the "history" section of the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Note that 1959 is when "machine learning" was coined. The actual practice goes back quite a bit further than that. The least squares fitting algorithm is from 1805.

As a rule of thumb, social problems are not solved by technological means.

Rules of thumb are dumb. Especially made up ones. You can make a pretty good argument that EVERY social problem is solved by technology. Probably not the technology you're thinking of though. Most of it is plumbing.

it's a bizarre "learn to recognize whole words by reading picture books and guessing what the text is from the pictures"

Whole language isn't bizzare. It's how you learn most things. How to speak, for example. Realistically you need both, which is why good language programs will have "picture books" and if you're stuck the teacher will tell you to sound it out.

This is a trial. Standards for testifying in trials are indeed different than shooting your mouth off on TV. They even do the whole swearing to tell the truth thing, and you can go to jail if you don't.

China spends less than 2% of their GDP on the military (~1.7% his year) and has been since it briefly hit 2% twenty five years ago. If they were in NATO US senators would be calling them deadbeats and Trump would be threatening to kick them out for it.

They're not aggressive. They're a big country, but they're not even really that big in absolute military numbers. They spend about a third what the US does, less than a quarter of NATO, they have about a quarter of the aircraft the US does, most of which are a lot older, about half the naval tonnage and a lot less firepower, about a tenth of the nukes, one overseas base versus over 800 American ones... the only thing that's even comparable is the raw number of army soldiers which is ~60% larger, for a country with more than 4x the population.

So you're pissed because they let you?

I've only met users, so the creator's thoughts are sort of irrelevant.

It's stuff like this that makes donating your time to open source the most rewarding thing in the world.